Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 1 Apr 2001 03:33:14 -0400 | From | Gregory Maxwell <> | Subject | Re: Revised memory-management stuff (was: OOM killer) |
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On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 10:03:28PM -0800, Jonathan Morton wrote: [snip] > Issue 3: > The OOM killer was frequently killing the "wrong" process. I have > developed an improved badness selector, and devised a possible means of > specifying "don't touch" PIDs at runtime. PID 1 is never selected for > killing. I am debating whether to allow selection of *any* process > labelled "init" and running as root for the chop, since one of the "unusual > but frequently encountered" scenarios is for a second init to be running > during an install or recovery procedure. This might make it's way in as an > optional feature.
IO/memory direct hardware access capability holding processes should be at the bottom of the list.
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